You ask what time works for people. That makes sense. However you don't ask what timezone they're in, which kind of makes a huge difference.

Also, a timezone or location option would let us know if there's a significant enough playerbase for a separate Community Custom Game Night for Australian / European players, as I'd imagine they wouldn't want to be connecting across the ocean to the North Americans.

Basically, I think this is a great idea and would love to do anything I can to help out, but I think the current version of your survey is somewhat lacking.

also I think a section asking people what types of custom games they prefer would be a good idea too. I mean, obviously you'd be playing whatever comes up but then you'd at least have a notion of community preference.

I think you'd benefit more from doing first come first server and having multiple hosts :) e.g. 3 lobbies where people send you a message with a word to get invited, that way you don't have to delete/add friends

Can we adapt this survey to take into consideration time difference. Im from the UK and would love to get involved with this... Ive put 8pm, but thats English time, which would be about 3pm American east coast time I think...

Are you available to host this Saturday? yeah i got pretty good internet and if we start early enough for the fools in NYC and late enough for the west coast gangsta then chi-town should be good as a host for everyone. idk if your trying to integrate the playas across the ocean

Just to hijack this top comment, I made the level Phobos from unreal tournament 99, and I'm wondering if I should make the weapons on the map me all ordnance drops for people who are too young to remember the weapon placement, or just regular weapons on map, what do you guys think?

I only remembered after watching some Phobos gameplay on YouTube. There's a lot of power weapons on the map ( I made a blank one too with no weapons) but I always felt that phobos was supposed to be a high energy in your face map. I'm still working on them so that they're compatible with king of the hill and oddball ( not sure if ctf would work since the map is so asymmetrical). I'll do a separate post for it when I'm satisfied with how it plays.

I was made aware of this issue and believe the best way to address it is to set up a Community Customs Day instead of night and have multiple times set up for custom game lobbies. I will need a UK player to host games.

I am voting for this to be a thing. As someone who is trying to get back in to the Forge scene (I made SO many levels in H3, and have spent more time in H4's Forge than actually playing the game), I would really like some method of sharing the designs and such that I create.

The next week or two is, sadly, CRAZY busy for me... so I don't when/if I'd be able to join in... but I'd really like this to happen so that when I DO have time, I have somewhere to go.

I've actually been curious if there was an established Forge/Custom Games community here within this subreddit. I've just finished making a custom map for a custom Infection gametype that I was wanting to mass test, and would be down for some big custom games. Manhunt looks fun!

At this point, I am just trying to get some hosts confirmed for Saturday. It's not ideal that you don't have a mic, but as long as you can hear everyone then that should be fine. Could you confirm that you can host asap? Thanks!

The biggest problem with this fantastic idea is you're asking people what time works for them but you're not asking in what timezone they are in. That'll make a giant difference because although you'll be getting 4pm consistantly, add and subtract 10 hours from it and you'll have an entire days worth of custom games.

Same goes for someone being a host. Add a button allowing us to check in which continent or time zone we are.

As a suggestion, I offered to put together a top 10 plays of the week's custom games. I'd like to find a way to allow the community to have a week to vote on which plays they liked the best and then I'd throw in some commentary and edit the clips (replays if necessary, countdown, etc.) to support the countdown.

I might have to do this through a separate website, though. I thought about a subreddit where you could just upvote, but it would get littered with previous weeks submissions. Maybe a subreddit for each week? What do you guys think?

Since you made that new sub, what about setting up a weekly post that highlights different custom maps/gametypes? Or even in this sub, that would be great to see all the different things people have made or found. I even made some absurd stuff in H3 but had no interest in Reach, this might spark my interest again.

I honestly just made the sub for the time being as things are a little crazy right now. I would rather keep it in the sidebar on /r/halo, but I would need help from the mods. My goal is to post a kind of pre-gameday thread where everyone would vote on maps/gametypes. The next day we would play the most voted gametypes/maps/try out other maps and then I would make a kind of post-gameday thread where people share stories/highlights/thought on the maps and gametypes.

I am trying to come up with an efficient system for all of this, so hopefully we can spark your interest again once everything is up and running :)

It's groovy, more places for people to go. At Free Hugs we have a good attitude type thing going on. Doesn't always mesh with the types that enjoy a bit of trash talk. Different places for folks to find people that mesh with themselves are a good thing.

Yes. I don't have many people on my friends list who play Halo, so people to play customs with would be groovy. Also, I haven't done the survey, but I'm not interested in hosting/have my own games to suggest, and my time zone is statiscally unlikely to be the same as yours.

Hey I wanted to ask something. I filled out a survey and I noticed you asked if we wanted to be hosts. I want to be a host I just don't know if I can all the time. Advice? Also, I'm making a pretty kick-ass map called Mantis Arena and a game type called Mantis Slayer. I'll bet you can put two and two together. Do you want me to message you with it or what's the deal? Was a little confused, sorry for the wall of text.

My friends and I made a near perfect a remake of the map "fatman" but have never been able to setup a custom game to test it out. But we don't know how it plays yet. We know that the spawns work, but we just don't know how well each layer will react with more than the 6 people we had build it with us. So if you post a thread I can post my GT, and the gametype and you guys can just join in if this ever happens.

I don't think I'd be able to participate in this whole thing, but I would love to donate a map I made with a friend. I've tested it with a small number of people and we had a lot of fun playing it. Also included is the gametype that goes along with it. Is there someone I should send it to?

Just signed up. I really hope this works out. I friggin love doing Halo customs, but i've never been able to have enough people to play properly. If you need any help with anything, my GT is BFG Relentless. Thanks for organizing this!

For those of you interested there is always us (community customs) for your Friday nights www.communitycustoms.info (we start at 9 est) will contact OP when I'm back at home to seeing we can help out all to

I may not be the best for playing all the time, but I'd like to submit my map Demo Derby for you guys to play.

Floating platform, 6 Ghosts, you have to ram each other off. Simple and a load of fun, made it back in Reach and my friends demanded I remade it in Halo 4. Game type and map both in my file-share, StonedWooki3.

As an an young adult gamer that can rarely coordinate play sessions with friends/players from previous halos due to our schedules and life in general, I would appreciate and pursue this opportunity to play more customs with reddit people!

Note! There is a misconception that Halo 3 is dead. There is the occasional low of users online being in the 1000's, but custom games are out there! Be friendlier to people and turn on your mics and its pretty easy to get a party.